Posts tagged Richard Lester
Ep #83 - Bands Playing Themselves in the 60s
Ep #83 - Bands Playing Themselves in the 60s

Bart & Jenna explore a series of band movies, from some notable British boy bands all the way to their American TV cousins. For such a decade-specific genre, it’s an episode full of high highs and low lows.

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PodcastGrateful GuysBritish Bands, Ferry Cross The Mersey, Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Beatles, Help, Sonny and Cher, The Monkees, The Dave Clark Five, Hermans Hermits, Freddie and the Dreamers, Jeremy Summers, John Boorman, Barbara Ferris, Richard Lester, Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, Arthur Lubin, Shelley Fabares, Sue Ane Langdon, Hold On, The Cuckoo Patrol, Duncan Wood, Kenneth Connor, Victor Maddern, Good Times, William Friedkin, George Sanders, Norman Alden, Mrs Brown Youve Got A Lovely Daughter, Saul Swimmer, Sheila White, Sarah Caldwell, Head, Bob Rafelson, VIctor Mature, Annette Funicello, Jack Nicholson Comments
Ep #54 - Kiss, Marry, Kill in the 60s: 1967
Ep #54 - Kiss, Marry, Kill in the 60s: 1967

Bart & Jenna play Kiss Marry Kill with the year 1967 and stumble upon an intriguing pattern. Including discussion on Peppermint Frappe, Herostratus, PlayTime, The Sorcerers, How I Won The War and I’ll Never Forget What's'isname.

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PodcastGrateful GuysKiss Marry Kill, 1967, Peppermint Frappe, Carlos Saura, Geraldine Chaplin, Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez, Alfredo Mayo, Herostratus, Don Levy, Michael Gothard, Gabriella Licudi, Peter Stephens, PlayTime, Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden, The Sorcerers, Michael Reeves, Boris Karloff, Catherine Lacey, Ian Ogilvy, How I Won The War, Richard Lester, Michael Crawford, John Lennon, Roy Kinnear, I'll Never Forget Whatsisname, Michael Winner, Oliver Reed, Orson Welles, Carol White, Helen MirrenComment
Ep #8 - Musicals in 1964
Ep #8 - Musicals in 1964

1964 was a year that represented a real turning point for movie musicals, mixing enduring classics with cutting edge Rock'n'Roll films.

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PodcastGrateful Guysmusicals, 1964, My Fair Lady, George Cukor, Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Mary Poppins, Disney, Robert Stevenson, Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Robin and the 7 Hoods, Gordon Douglas, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Bing Crosby, The Rat Pack, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Jacques Demy, Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Viva Las Vegas, Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret, Cesare Danova, George Sidney, Muscle Beach Party, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Luciana Paluzzi, Frankie and Annette, William Asher, Buddy Hackett, Morey Amsterdam, Don Rickles, A Hard Day's Night, Richard Lester, The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, Wilfrid Brambell, Norman Rossington, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Roustabout, Kissin Cousins, The Pleasure Seekers, The Horror of Party Beach, The T.A.M.I. Show, Bikini Beach, Ferry Cross The Mersey, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed Up ZombiesComment
Ep #4 - Cold War Comedies in the 60s
Ep #4 - Cold War Comedies in the 60s

Jenna & Bart navigate the anxiety, arrogance, doubts, patriotism, and humanist longings expressed through comedy during this time of high global tension.

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PodcastGrateful GuysCold War, comedy, One Two Three, Billy Wilder, James Cagney, The Mouse on the Moon, Richard Lester, Dr Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick, Peter Sellers, Sterling Hayden, George C Scott, John Goldfarb Please Come Home, J Lee Thompson, Shirley MacLaine, Peter Ustinov, The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming, Norman Jewison, Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin, The President's Analyst, Theodore J Flicker, James Coburn, Severn Darden, The Diamond Arm, Leonid Gaidai, Russia, BritishComment